-This one was just a few months prior to the Zuffa buyout of StrikeForce, the buyout that literally came so quickly that basically nobody saw it coming. At this point though Strikeforce was still really pushing to be the top competitor to the UFC, and looking at this Challengers show, a LOT of...

-Time flies, man. Case in point – May 2010 doesn’t seem that long ago for me and yet it’s actually over half a decade ago – in the MMA world the week before this show, Alistair Overeem defended his StrikeForce HW title against Brett Rogers while a week after it, Rampage Jackson and...

-Time for a trip in the wayback machine then, to 2009 and arguably the peak of StrikeForce as this was the period where they’d just signed Fedor, Gegard Mousasi, King Mo, Dan Henderson, etc and people were starting to talk them up as a possible challenger to the UFC as Affliction and EliteXC...

-Been meaning to look at this show for well, a year now. Oops. Anyway this was the show that we’d all been waiting for since March 2011 when Zuffa purchased StrikeForce – the final fling on Showtime before the promotion would fold, sending all the top talent to the UFC in one of the...